Re: What versions of gnutls reset the MAC on gnutls_hmac_output?

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Steven G. Johnson <address@hidden> wrote:
> This 2013-04-27 commit:
> http://gitorious.org/gnutls/gnutls/commit/53456b2c96cd282ed530a87105684a5610279f09
> documented that gnutls_hmac_output also resets the MAC, but there is no
> corresponding mention of any API change in the NEWS for the next release
> (3.1.11).  It apparently works in 3.1.10 but not in 2.12.5, and we're not
> sure when/if the API was changed.
> In what versions of GnuTLS can we rely on this behavior of
> gnutls_hmac_output?

Hello,
 That is a side-effect of the libgcrypt to nettle change. When GnuTLS
is used with nettle the reset is implicit and occurs always even with
2.12.5 (which I suppose you use with libgcrypt).

regards,
Nikos